No. 2 Kansas Upset by Red-Hot Hawaii, 76-65

Hawaii pulled off its biggest upset, beating No. 2 Kansas, 76-65, Tuesday night in the championship game of the Rainbow Classic at Honolulu.

Alika Smith scored 22 points for the Rainbows (10-1). Eric Ambrozich had 18 points and nine rebounds and Anthony Carter 17 and seven assists.

Hawaii held the Jayhawks (16-2) to their lowest point total of the season--22 under their average.

Kansas lost for the first time since All-America Raef LaFrentz broke his right index finger.

No. 3 Duke 89, Portland St. 39--Duke freshman Chris Burgess scored 14 points at Durham, N.C., in his first start in the Blue Devils’ first game without leading scorer and rebounder Elton Brand.

Trajan Langdon also had 14 points as Duke (11-1) got a balanced scoring effort with William Avery adding 13 points, Roshown McLeod 12 and Shane Battier 10.

Brian Towne scored 10 points, nine on three-point baskets, to lead Portland State (5-5) in only its second year as a Division I school after a 15-year hiatus for the basketball program.

Brand, a 6-foot-8 freshman, is expected to sit out the rest of the season after breaking a bone in his left foot during practice Saturday. Brand was leading the team at 16 points and seven rebounds a game. Brand underwent surgery Tuesday and Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said the procedure “went extremely well.”

Michigan State 74, No. 5 Purdue 57--Mateen Cleaves Cleaves led Michigan State with 25 points and Antonio Smith grabbed 15 rebounds as the Spartans upset Purdue at West Lafayette, Ind., in the Big Ten opener for both teams.

Smith led the Spartans’ domination on the boards as they outrebounded Purdue, 48-31, an effort that added to the offensive woes of the cold-shooting Boilermakers.

Cleaves scored the first six points of the game and the Spartans (8-3) took off.

The Spartans used a 13-2 run--with Cleaves and Charlie Bell scoring five points each--to take a 14-point lead with 3:07 left in the first half. The Boilermakers (11-3) pulled within 49-38 on a three-point basket by Alan Eldridge midway through the second half, but Michigan State went on an 8-2 run to put the game out of reach. Andre Hutson scored six of his 13 points in that run.

No. 6 Kentucky 95, Ohio 58--Nazr Mohammed scored 15 points and Scott Padgett added 13 for the Wildcats at Athens, Ohio.

Kentucky (11-2), which dropped from No. 4 in the rankings after a loss to Louisville on Saturday, had no trouble with Ohio (2-8). The Wildcats pulled away in the second half with a 20-2 run that gave them a 76-44 lead with 9:05 to play.

Jamal Magloire scored nine points during the run while Heshimu Evans had five. Kentucky pushed the lead to 91-51 on Magloire’s tip-in with 1:15 to play.

No. 7 Stanford 69, Santa Clara 60--Kris Weems scored 15 points and Arthur Lee had 13 as the Cardinal won the championship game of the Cable Car Classic at San Jose.

Tim Young added 13 points and Ryan Mendez had 10 for Stanford (11-0), off to its best start since the 1936-37 team began the season 14-0.

Nathan Fast had 16 points to lead Santa Clara (8-3), while Craig Johnson added 11.

No. 8 Arizona 125, Kansas St. 87--Arizona scored the first 27 points of the second half and the eighth-ranked Wildcats went on to an easy victory over previously unbeaten Kansas State to win the Fiesta Bowl Classic at Tucson, Ariz.

Michael Dickerson had 28 points for Arizona (9-3), while Mike Bibby added 19 points, Miles Simon 17, Bennett Davison 15 and A.J. Bramlett 12.

Duane Davis led Kansas State (9-1) with 22 points and Shawn Rhodes added 14 and Aaron Swartzendruber 10.

No. 10 Connecticut 90, Fairfield 63--Richard Hamilton opened the game with a personal 9-0 run and finished with a career-high 35 points, leading Connecticut to an easy win at Hartford, Conn., and helping Jim Calhoun become the 19th Division I coach to win 500 games.

Hamilton scored 28 points in the first half, only five points shy of his previous career high, as the Huskies (12-1) beat the Stags for the 13th consecutive time.

No. 11 South Carolina 65, Towson 55--South Carolina needed BJ McKie’s 18 points and a late second-half run to beat Towson at Columbia, S.C.

Minus point guard Melvin Watson, missing his first game because of an injured knee ligament, the Gamecocks (8-1) struggled to even bring the ball up against the Tigers (2-8), who don’t have anyone taller than 6-8.

McKie scored nine points in the first half when South Carolina played its worst. The Gamecocks went stretches of three, four and five minutes without a basket and had their lowest-scoring half of the year. Yet they trailed only 21-20.

No. 12 New Mexico 69, Yale 44--New Mexico opened the game with an 18-2 run then was content to trade bad shots and sloppy play with outmanned Yale in the championship game of the Lobo Invitational at Albuquerque, N.M.

New Mexico (9-1) ran its homecourt winning streak to 34 games--second longest in the nation--and needed just the first six minutes to put away the shorter, slower Bulldogs (3-7).

Clayton Shields led New Mexico with 15 points. Charlie Petit was Yale’s leading scorer with nine points.

No. 13 Xavier 93, Butler 66--Darnell Williams scored 21 points to lead Xavier at Cincinnati and end the Bulldogs’ five-game winning streak.

Torraye Braggs added 16 points and 11 rebounds for Xavier (8-2), while Lenny Brown had 14 points, James Posey 12 and T.J. Johnson 11.

Otis Frazier led Butler (9-4) with 13 points, while Rolf van Rijn had 11.

No. 16 Mississippi 99, Northwestern Louisiana 52--Mississippi’s Ansu Sesay scored all 19 of his points in the first half at Oxford, Miss.

Mississippi (9-1) led at halftime, 54-19, and opened the second half with a 23-8 run highlighted by three-point baskets by Jon Cantrell and Joezon Darby.

Northwestern State (3-7) never led as the Rebels shot 56% from the field. The Demons shot 36.8% and committed 18 turnovers in the game.

Pittsburgh at No. 19 Syracuse, ppd., snow--The Big East game between Pittsburgh and No. 19 Syracuse at Syracuse, N.Y., was postponed after a storm dumped more than 1 1/2 feet of snow in the area. The game has not been rescheduled.

Missouri 83, No. 20 Maryland 79--Brian Grawer scored 15 points to lead five Missouri players in double figures as the Tigers upset Marylad at Columbia, Mo.

Maryland (7-4) had a chance to cut Missouri’s lead to one point with under 30 seconds to play when Grawer, after a hard foul by Matt Kovarik, missed two free throws. But Rodney Elliot, who scored 13 points, missed a shot and Missouri’s Tyron Lee made two free throws to make the score 82-77.

Kelly Thames, who finished with 14 points, added one more free throw for the Tigers (7-4).

No. 21 Clemson 71, W. Kentucky 52--Johnny Miller sparked Clemson (10-3) to its fifth consecutive victory, scoring five points in an early 9-0 run at Bowling Green, Ky.

Western Kentucky (3-6) tied the score at 13 when Lee Lampley’s free throw capped a 7-3 run with 8:14 remaining in the half as both teams struggled offensively.

No. 24 Rhode Island 96, Penn 89--Preston Murphy and Antonio Reynolds-Dean scored 21 and 19 points, respectively, to lead Rhode Island in the third-place game of the Cable Car Classic at San Jose.

Rhode Island (7-2), which lost to No. 7 Stanford by one point Monday night, led Pennsylvania (3-6), 47-43, at halftime and by only 57-51 with 15 minutes left in the game.

However, the Rams outscored the Quakers, 9-2, over the next 3:34 to take a 66-52 lead, and maintained control thereafter.

OTHER GAMES

Oregon State (9-2) used a 12-2 run in the second half to put away Boise State (8-4), beating the Broncos, 71-60, in the championship game of the Hilo Holiday Shootout at Hilo, Hawaii. . . . Deon Luton scored a career-high 25 points and Washington (7-2) came back after trailing at halftime to beat Gonzaga (10-3), 88-82, at Seattle. . . . Drew Maddux scored eight points during a crucial stretch late in the second half as Vanderbilt (11-2) rallied from a 16-point deficit to defeat Nebraska (9-4), 80-69, in the third place game of the Rainbow Classic at Honolulu. . . . Malik Allen scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half to lift Villanova, 6-4 overall and 3-0 in the Big East, to an 83-76 conference victory over Boston College (8-5, 1-2) at Boston. . . .

For the second consecutive night, Paul Pierce took charge down the stretch late Monday night as No. 2 Kansas, after blowing a 20-point lead, hung on to beat Vanderbilt, 89-82, in the Rainbow Classic at Honolulu. Kansas (16-1) appeared to have the game in control, leading, 59-39, five minutes into the second half and scoring virtually at will. The Commodores (10-2) put on a startling rally, with James Strong doing the early scoring and Drew Maddux breaking out of an early shooting slump.